Papa, PhD

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A collection of personal essays from men who wrestle with what it means to be a father in academia today. Organized in three sections, the stories of the contributors depict not merely a balancing act of parenting, teaching, and writing, but also the revelatory collision and occasional fusion of competing identities. Essays in the first section, qFathers in Theory, Fathers in Praxis, q focus on challenges related to merging work and parenting. The authors contemplate to what degree we engage our children in the academy, while also allowing them to grow independently, recognizing the challenge of keeping the roles of parent and teacher distinct. The second section, qFamily Made, q explores fatherhood against the grain and includes narratives of single dads, fathers raising children with disabilities, biracial families, and other qnon-traditionalq parenting situations. qForging New Fatherhoods, q the third section, articulates the strategies created by men to qbalance diapers and a doctorateq or to reconcile fatherhood with professional ambition. The contributors' reflections reveal how fatherhood is instrumental to their successes and failures in the workplace, and demonstrate that the relationship between fatherhood and academia is a rich and legitimate subject for study.Organized in three sections, the stories of the contributors depict not merely a balancing act of parenting, teaching, and writing, but also the revelatory collision and occasional fusion of competing identities.

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Papa, PhD

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Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Reynolds, Ralph James Savarese

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Rutgers University Press - 2011

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